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The Grey Fox
After spending 33 in prison for robbing stagecoaches, Bill Miner enters the 20th century with the old habit of stealing for a living dying harder, despite being an outdated means of income. With The Grey Fox, the western film genre enters into the modern age of film, as the straightforward white hats vs black hats storylines are completely out of the picture and are replaced by more layered characters who disspell the traditional boundaries of what makes a cowboy a good guy or a bad guy. Fronted with an enthusiastic portrayal by Richard Farnsworth as a dusty "gentleman thief", this is a movie that finally edges the genre of the Ol' West shoot 'em ups over the line to the modern mode of bronco busting banditry.
6 years, 11 months ago
Duel
While I usually try to keep only films that were released in movie theaters on these lists 'o' mine, every once in a while I come across a piece of TV cinema that's so good, that for me, it's quality ranks up there with the best of theatrical releases. Duel is a good example of this type of smallscreen cinematic excellence. Not surprising, considering that it is Steven Spielberg's major film debut (well, at least from my memory it is). And with just the use a big ol' rusted semi-truck, a lone driving Dennis Weaver and a desolate desert road, the Spielmeister is able to demonstrate why he will eventually become a king of energetic, exciting blockbuster-fare.
7 years ago
Arrival
Avatar

7 years, 2 months ago
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Hairspray
Porky
The Ice Pirates
The Sunshine Boys

7 years, 4 months ago
The Hangover

7 years, 4 months ago
Sicario (2015)
After evading a trap that was set up during a safe house raid, a young FBI agent, Kate Macer, is given the chance for some payback by being assigned to a larger task of bringing down the leader of a powerful Mexican drug cartel. Joining a team of CIA agents in charge of the operation, Macer faces the truth of such big time assignments and the dirty little secrets involved, not to mention the dangerous risks. Sicario is the kind of story that Hollywood usually enjoys manipulating into a more over-the-top kind of action flick. But, in the hands of a film festival favorite director like Denis Villenueve (also responsible for other movies like Prisoners and Arrival), it becomes more of an earthier, intrinsic crime thriller, with the kind of drama that takes the problem of drug trafficking along the border and hits it closer to home. Literally and figuratively.
7 years, 5 months ago
Good Night, and Good Luck.
The Consequences of Love
The Counterfeiters
United 93
Tell No One

7 years, 5 months ago
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

7 years, 5 months ago
Ouija: Origin of Evil
I once bought a oiuja board at a garage sale. After I brought it home, I decided to try it out to since if it really worked, especially considering that I was never one to believe in the supernatural. I started out by asking "Are there any spirits there?" That thingamajig that slides across the board slid over the the "Yes" answer. Since I wasn't really expecting any kind of a response, I was taken somewhat aback, and asked it the first question that popped into my head. "Uhhh..." I mumbled "...just exactly how do you spell 'Ouija'?" (the board I purchased was homemade and therefore didn't have the word "Ouija" on it, like the ones that you can buy from Milton Bradley). The "spirit" replied with the letters "W" "T" "F". Guess beings from the other side aren't very good spellers.
7 years, 5 months ago
Hush
The masked slasher genre hits a high note with this silent themed out in the middle of the woods scare fare in which a deaf woman finds herself all alone, isolated far away from the rest of the world, and stalked by a killer who doesn't care if his victim can hear him coming or not. He's still gonna slash yo deaf ass, even if you don't have the ability to hear yourself scream. When I mentioned of how the overall writing quality of horror themed cinema is improving, moving the genre further away from the shlock and camp infested reputation that it accumulated during the 60's and 70s, Hush is a good example of this. One film after another of simply stacking up one body count after another, the slasher flick was developing itself as a subgenre that was all blood, but with no heart. However, with the advent of movies like this one, we are now seeing that sometimes, the entertainment value of watching masked knife wielding maniacs go on a spree can come from fearing for the life of their intended victims rather than just seeing how much blood they can spill.
7 years, 6 months ago
Fantasia 2000
Tales of the Night
Fantasia
Paperman (2012)
The Simpsons Movie

7 years, 6 months ago
The Exorcist

7 years, 6 months ago
The Mighty Celestial added Magnolia to have watched list
7 years, 6 months ago
Fist of Legend
A porn flick that has to be seen to be believed. This is one of those rare cases where the term "legend" is not used loosely. And neither is the word "fist". Oh wait.... I think I might be getting this mixed up with another movie......
7 years, 6 months ago
Saint

7 years, 6 months ago
The Royal Tenenbaums
While many of my fellow film connoisseurs were talking up Wes Anderson's first two films, Bottle Rocket and especially Rushmore, I did't really start liking his work until this movie. I know that I'm mostly in the minority when I say this, but his previous two films before Tenenbaums didn't really do anything for me. Now, it has been awhile since I saw those sophomore efforts, so I'd have to watch 'em again to see if my indifference towards them still holds up. The Royal Tenebaums was the first movie that introduced to the works of Wes Anderson's, who has since become one of my favorite directors of contemporary cinema. His style of storytelling and art direction that to me, is unique, understated, and blends well with the underlying dysfunctional drama that he likes to add into the mix. I highly recommend his movies to anyone who wish to expand their palettes beyond that of a typical popcorn flick.
7 years, 6 months ago
3:10 to Yuma
[Rec] 2

7 years, 6 months ago
The Invisible
A high school teenager finds himself to be invisible to all the other kids in school. And not just cuz of his lack of personality. The boy's a ghost. And thus begins a tale of redemption from beyond the "other side". The Invisible (or Den Osynlige, in it's original Swedish title) is yet another fine example of a "foreign" film that got went largely ignored here in the United States because Hollywood decided to produce an inferior remake instead. And of course, in this remake (also called The Invisible, BTW), they eliminated most of the distinctive elements of the original and replaced it with the standard tricks that are supposed to help make the movie a success at the box office. Which it wasn't. Gotta love those formula flicks, huh?
7 years, 6 months ago
The Mighty Celestial added Super Size Me to have watched list
7 years, 6 months ago
Zootopia
The Martian

7 years, 6 months ago
Before Midnight
There's a saying about romance that goes something along the the lines "once the romantic love ends, then the real love can begin". In the first two movies in this "Before Trilogy" (I'm assuming that's what it's called since I've never really heard any name actually given to this series), two very smart, very deep and very talkative people from different sides of the Atlantic meet and fall in love in a manner very different from the traditional Hollywood manner.... they actually try to get to know each other. After their initial encounter and a several year bump in their relationship, Before Midnight updates us on the lovers' status, now couple married and with children. And just like every other long termed betrothed relationship, they must deal with the challenges that arise from such a joint venture. And just like the previous films, they talk through their feelings, observations and always present insecurities, learning in the process that, no matter how long or how deep their time spent together, there are always new things to learn about each other. And they might not always be pretty or reassuring, but it's something that they will always share.
7 years, 6 months ago
House of Dracula

7 years, 6 months ago
The Day the Earth Stood Still
I think I vaguely remember the day way back when the Earth stood still. Wasn't that the day that nothing moved? Or am I thinking about Labor Day? My memory gets kinda fuzzy when it comes to the McCarthyism Red scare sci-fi era. Anyways, this is a film where the aliens do come in peace, but they also come with a warning. We humans need to behave. Or if we don't, the aliens are likely to give us a spanking. On a galactic level.
7 years, 6 months ago
Coraline
As a comic-book nerd, I first became aware of Coraline as a graphic novel written by comic-book writer Neil Gaiman (though, it's original format of release is as a novella). It's horror fantasy for young readers and as a film, it's a fine modern update of the Alice In Wonderland theme, with it's mixed ingredients of creative psychodelica, slightly edged childlike wonder, along with a nice dash of horror, but just enough to gurgitate a lump of fear in the throat of the kiddie audience within its targeted age. But not so much that it would scare any of it's viewers to the point of absolving their parents of any responsibility for any trauma that might lead 'em up to the top of a building with a sniper gun, later on in life. Hopefully.
7 years, 6 months ago
How to Train Your Dragon 2
In the first HtTYD, we were taught the fundamentals on how to train our dragons. And just when you thought you knew all that you had to know about your dragon and how to train him/her, comes along HtTYD2. Which shows us how to train our dragons even more. But, to be quite honest, all I needed to learn when it came to training my dragon was how to keep it from burning down the house. And how to poop in the giant dragon pooper that I got for him. Other than those two pretty important things, anything else the franchise has to show me in the order of dragon-training is just fluff. Sure, it's cool, kick ass and highly entertaining CGI stuff, but in the end, it's still just fluff. Atho, the movies themselves, are pretty damn kick-ass.
7 years, 6 months ago
Rocky Balboa

7 years, 6 months ago
Burn After Reading
There's a certain point where the story of Burn After Reading refers to itself as a clusterf#ck. Which, I guess leads me to the opinion that the point of this movie is simply to be the kind of "entertaining clusterf#ck ball of yarn that only the Bros. Cohen could entertainingly pull off". So, yeah.... for me, that's what I'm gonna stick with as far as the description of this here film.
7 years, 6 months ago
The Mighty Celestial added United 93 to have watched list
7 years, 6 months ago
The Queen

7 years, 6 months ago
The Royal Tenenbaums
While many of my fellow film connoisseurs were talking up Wes Anderson's first two films, Bottle Rocket and especially Rushmore, I did't really start liking his work until this movie. I know that I'm mostly in the minority when I say this, but his previous two films before Tenenbaums didn't really do anything for me. Now, it has been awhile since I saw those sophomore efforts, so I'd have to watch 'em again to see if my indifference towards them still holds up. Regardless, he has since become one of my favorite directors of contemporary cinema. As a matter of fact, two of his most recent works, Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest Hotel are, IMO, two of the best films of this decade. Anderson has a style of storytelling and art direction that is unique, understated, and blends well with the underlying dysfunctional drama that he likes to add into the mix. It's a brand of film-making that will probably never be suited for mass consumption, but it definitely has the potential to satisfy the appetite for those of us movie lovers who, every once in a while, just wanna expand our palettes beyond that of a typical popcorn flick. With names like Gene Hackman, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller and Angelica Houston, it's no surprise that as far as dark comedies go, The Tenenbaums are what you might call the royal family of aristocratic and eccentric dysfunction.
7 years, 6 months ago

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